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Dust
Country:Germany
Director:Hartmut Bitomsky
Program:Contemporary World Cinema
Year:
2007
Summary:
Dust. It is everywhere and ever present. It is the smallest, discernable subject about which to
make a film. In associative and symphonic movements, Bitomsky pursues it to the place
where it settles, and seeks out people who contend with it. Columns of cleaners in their daily
battle for cleanliness, inventors of air cleansing products, scientists who investigate the
damaging consequences of fine dust and uranium munitions from the US army’s stock of
weapons, botanists, meteorologists, astronomers and artists. Dust marks out the limits of
where we can still directly experience who we are and where we come from, what we do and
what we can or should be. We are never done dealing with it. Dust will not go away.
